Open Bug 1935814 Opened 2 months ago Updated 2 months ago

The tooltip disappears when the cursor moves a few pixels, which is an undesirable behavior on macOS

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(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, enhancement, P3)

Firefox 133
Desktop
macOS
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(Reporter: 5silentrain, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open this site, for example, and move your mouse cursor inside the rectangle with the image of a gaming mouse: https://www.turtlebeach.com/collections/mice

  2. After the tooltip appears, move your cursor just a few pixels

Actual results:

The tooltip will disappear, which is an undesirable and unpredictable behavior on macOS.

Expected results:

The tooltip should only disappear when the mouse cursor moves outside the area where the tooltip is supposed to appear. See how this is implemented in Chrome and Safari.

I noticed that the tooltip behaves correctly in the Library window (it does not disappear even if you move the mouse cursor a significant distance). It would be great if all other tooltips in Firefox had this behavior.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/etQ4zCT.png

Firstly, this behavior does not comply with Apple's guidelines. And secondly, it is simply inconvenient and annoying when the tooltip disappears every time I move my mouse literally a few pixels.

OS: Unspecified → macOS
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Cocoa' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Cocoa
Product: Firefox → Core
Severity: -- → S3
Priority: -- → P3
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